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judgement_n	day_n	heart_n	youth_n	1,554	5	9.4723	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19568	The young-mans warning-peece, or, A sermon preached at the buriall of William Rogers, apothecary with an history of his sinfull life and woefull death, together with A post-script of the use of examples : dedicated to the young-men of the parish, especially his companions / by Robert Abbot ...	Abbot, Robert, 1588?-1662?	1639 (1639)	STC 60.7; ESTC S113008	35,100	122

strength is pulled this way or that way so is it with you who are ready to bee swayed with winde and tyde every way Secondly you will easily savour ever of that first liquor which is put into you Receive the distilled dewes of grace from the Spirit of God and what a sweet savour shall yee be in the nostrils of God and man Receive the bloudy showers of devillish and worldly temptations and how will ye stinke like Sodome and her Sisters If a man by his owne and others disorders have his body made crooked when young he will be crooked in bud blossome leafe fruit and age but if hee bee strait th● hee by the grace of GOD continues strait still So will it bee with you that which is crooked cannot be made straite and that which is wanting cannot bee numbred Thirdly ye are now subject to the horriblest sins That natural corruption which is rooted in all mankinde hath in your age more instruments to bring it to outward appearance as flour●shing wit to invent and dexterity in other members to put in execution As therefore they that are sick of burning feavers have need of cooling things and stomackefull Colts have need of stronger bits so the fury of your age must bee held in as with a bit and bridle lest it run upon you and lay your honour in the dust Fourthly your sinnes being committed will cry loudest These made David cry out remember not the sins of my youth when my service would have beene most acceptable These made Iob complaine Thou writest bitter things against mee and makest mee possesse the iniquities of my youth These made Paul ply Timothy to flee the lusts of youth And these will make you pittifully cry out too late We have wearied our selves in the wayes of wickednesse when our paths were spred with butter When we were strong lusty and able to doe God service wee served the Devill and now when God distributeth sorrowes in his anger our bones are full of the sinnes of our youth which shall lye downe with us in the dust 5. Lastly you think that you have a priviledge by your age youth must have its course they must sowe their wilde Oats But the counsell of the Spirit is otherwise In the morning sow thy seede and in the evening with-hold not thy hand for thou knowest not whether shall prosper Therefore Salomon thinkes such more worthy to be laught at then to bee anred Rejoyce O young man in thy youth and let thy heart cheere thee in the dayes of thy youth and walke in the wayes of thy heart and in the sight of thine eyes but know thou that for all these things GOD will bring thee to judgement And David doth tie up your untamed age to the hornes of the Altar saying that even you must clense your wayes by taking heed thereto according to his word If therefore there bee any feare of GOD before your eyes if yee have any bowels of compassion to your poore soules walke not in the darke waies of the wicked Open your eyes to see all the stumbling blocks of wicked men and stumble not into their paths O thinke what may come hereafter how soone you may die goe hence and bee no more seene One dies in full strength being wholly at ease and quiet His brests are full of milke and his bones are full of marrow and another dies in the bitternesse of his soule and never eateth with pleasure and then without the grace of Repentance the mercy of pardon I must to Hell to millions of millions of torments Farewell companions farewell time farewell pleasure farewell friends farewell all your perswasions c. and shall I say welcome Hell O no I would give thousands of Rams and tenne thousand Rivers of Oyle yea the fruit of my body for the sin of my soule but the just Iudge will not accept it cut it downe why cumbreth it the ground depart from me I know thee not Thus you have had your example and your rule both shewing the misery of a wicked life you have had my charge and discharge Shall it fall like raine upon the barren Rockes and Mountaines without fruit Shall it not move one soule to goe from the dens of sinne to GOD If not as noble Terentius when hee had petitioned for the Christians and saw it torne in peeces before his face gathered up the peeces and said I have my reward I have not sued for gold silver honour or pleasure but a Church So say I in the middest of your neglect I have not sued for your gold or silver for your houses and lands for your drinkes dice or drabs but for your soules your precious soules If I cannot or shall not wooe them to come to Christ God raise up some child of the Bride-chamber which may doe it better If neither I nor others can prevaile feare that speech of Elies sons they hearkened not unto the voice of their father because the LORD would slay them In such a case Oh that my head were full of water and mine eyes a fountaine of teares that I may weep day and night for the miserable young men of my people But GOD grant I may have no such cause God grant you may not bee in such a state God grant you may bee now wise to salvation For it is your salvation God would have it is your salvation I would have and woe unto you if you bee enemies to desires so good and no lesse usefull than for your salvation your salvation for ever and ever GOD guide your hearts to the love of God and to the waiting for of Christ FINIS A POST-SCRIPT TO THE READER of this Warning-peece of the use of examples LONDON Printed by T. B. 1639. A Post-script to the Reader of this Warning peece of the use of Examples GOod Reader stay a while thou hast not yet done I have for thy good set before thee an old Rule and new examples and of the abuse of examples I am not ignorant Some looke upon them so as to imitate them be they never so bad As Augustus a learned Prince filled his Empire with Schollers so Tiberius a dissembling Prince with dissemblers Iulian an Apostate Prince with Apostates and Jeroboham a Calvish Prince with Idolaters Others looke upon them so as to hate the persons as well as the sins Every fearefull accident either in the life or death of men speakes to them the language of damnation Howsoever they be abused I am sure it is most fit yea excellent to have the white booke of Gods mercies and the blacke Booke of judgements alwayes before our eyes The abuse doth not take away the use no more than the Spartans shewed themselves wise in rooting out their Vines because their people abused their Wine to drunkennesse I am sure wee have the example of GOD Himselfe who would not silence the patternes

his fore-past life whereas many of those who have lived better have died with little rest and no comfort Hence they stumble thicke and threefold and make no question to dy no worse than they though they doe as bad Thus they stumble and stumble and the cause or the signe of all is this in the Proverbe They know not at what they stumble As for sinne they do not know who they themselves are that sin They are the creatures of GOD who hath blessed them a thousand wayes and therefore they should live to the honour of him and not as if the Devill had made them They doe not know whom they sin against It is against an infinite GOD who is an infinite good and therefore the least guilt will not so easily bee taken off as they dreame Can much Niter and much Sope doe it Can thousands of Rammes and ten thousand Rivers of Oyle Sinne against a private man and it is a trespasse or battery sin against a King it is sedition or treason but sinne against God and no name can expresse it nothing can cleanse it but the bloud of the Lambe which brings to us the righteousnesse of GOD which is of infinite worth They doe not know what sin will worke It is the wilde Bore of the Wood that laies waste the Vine of our soules it woundeth the Conscience defaceth the Image of GOD and writes upon us Satans Image and superscription it brings feare pit and snare upon the inhabitants of the earth and at the last the vengeance of eternall fire All this and much more about sin these poore wretches doe not know and hence they stumble upon sinne and ruine As for Repentance they know neither the necessity worke or worth of it Doe they present this to their soules that except they repent they shall perish Yes that they doe and therefore they will repent hereafter Yea but are they not deceived in the worke of it Doe they not thinke it to bee the worke of an houre when the whole life of a man were but enough for us to walke in that way Doe they not thinke it to bee nothing but a conviction for sinne a sorrow for sinne and a crying God mercy Doe they know that it implyes sorrow for sinne seene purpose to forsake sin sorrowed for and to returne unto God Or know they that it is accompanied if it be saving with an holy course in godlinesse and righteousnesse No such matter It is so slenderly looked after and so poorely prized by them that they take it up as old shooes when they have none else to weare when they have not a day to live and an houre to spend in sinne then they will repent what ever come of it Thus these miserable wretches when they have built a Castle of their owne Repentance not Gods do stumble at they know not what Now for presumption woe is them whatsoever they dreame of Mountaines of mercy They know not the power of GODS wrath They thinke him to bee made up of nothing but mercy and that hee should doe them wrong if they should not have it They see the light of his countenance so long in their health and prosperity that they presume hee cannot bend his browes and turne his backe in after daies Doe they remember that after God had made the world his first act was an act of justice upon lapsed Angels who though they were in Heaven were cast downe into Hell and delivered into the chaines of darknesse to bee reserved unto judgement Have they forgotten that his next worke was a worke of justice upon Adam in Paradise and the third that wee reade of a worke of justice upon Cain for committing murther but once Have they not read that GOD drowned the first world first for imaginations Or that he burned with fire and brimstone Sodome and her wicked sisters for pride fulnesse of bread abundance of idlenesse which hatched plenty of lust Is the justice of GOD upon the world cleane gone out of minde when his Church was in a Corner and but a little flocke Or will they not see the justice of God upon Christ Our surety in the similitude of sinfull flesh that hee did not escape it being made sin for us that is by being a sacrifice for sin that wee might be the righteousnesse of GOD in him They have forgotten all prints of Iustice that they may put farre from them the evill day and sinne without feare But that God that is a God of mercy for the vessels of mercy is for those who by wilfull sins make themselves the vessels of wrath a consuming fire yea and when his hand takes hold of judgement hee will make his sword drunke with bloud Then shall they know what now they willingly know not that hee that blesseth himselfe in his heart saying I shall have peace though I walke in the imagination of my heart to adde drunkennesse to thirst the Lord will not bee mercifull unto him Doe they stumble at despaire of their owne strength It is at they know not what still For doe they not shew great strength in sinne Why then will they not try what they can doe in vertue Hath not CHRIST promised his assistance in the Word of GOD and Sacraments Why will they neglect CHRISTS hand which is put under to helpe Why will they not be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might that they may be able to doe all things through him that helpeth them Will they more impotently stumble at the despaire of Gods mercy Surely they stumble at they know not what For God is good unto wicked men much more to those that truely repent Doth not his Sun and raine blesse obdurate sinners much more hath hee the blessing of peace for those that tremble at his Word and are weary and heavie laden with their sinnes For will they forget how willingly GOD reasoneth with the rebellious Iewes and promiseth that upon Repentance he will make their twice dipt scarlet sinnes as white as wooll Or doe they not regard that GOD tels them that mercy pleaseth him If hee come in a work of justice hee shaves with a Raser that is hired as if hee had no instrument of his owne to execute wrath but if he comes in a worke of mercy it is his own work his proper worke But they forget this as if Christs bloud did not triumph over all the sins of penitents even to the bathing of them that turne to him who shed it by murther this they forget and so doe stumble at headlong despaire Doe they stumble at the world Alas they know not at what What is all the world if wee could graspe it into an handfull It flattereth while it smileth and the glory of it passeth away Have wee the confluence of all worlds goods They cannot keepe off